It just seems like every card I search for in the forum have some kind of problems or not able to run UI2 with alpha or UI3.And the high end cards 8XXX seem to be badly supported in Linux... So It leaves me: 1. Don't buy Ati.2. Don't buy to "high end" card.3. Don't buy card with to little ram.

So my question is, what is left?

Would it be possible to have some "working out of the box" hardware list or thread?

Well it does not help that I'm a new Linux user so messing around with config files and stuff to get the hardware working still makes my brain hurt a little bit

It just seems like every card I search for in the forum have some kind of problems or not able to run UI2 with alpha or UI3.And the high end cards 8XXX seem to be badly supported in Linux... So It leaves me: 1. Don't buy Ati.2. Don't buy to "high end" card.3. Don't buy card with to little ram.

So my question is, what is left?

Would it be possible to have some "working out of the box" hardware list or thread?

Well it does not help that I'm a new Linux user so messing around with config files and stuff to get the hardware working still makes my brain hurt a little bit

What version of the nvidia drivers are you using? I have an Asus EN6200LE which is reported to work with UI2 + alpha blending by several people here in the forum. When I turn on alpha blending my CPU usage goes up to around 70% without doing anything and up to 100% when I try to use menus. The menus have a high latency and flickr screensaver is not moving smoothly... Because of that I can only use UI2 medium at the moment. Any ideas?

What version of the nvidia drivers are you using? I have an Asus EN6200LE which is reported to work with UI2 + alpha blending by several people here in the forum. When I turn on alpha blending my CPU usage goes up to around 70% without doing anything and up to 100% when I try to use menus. The menus have a high latency and flickr screensaver is not moving smoothly... Because of that I can only use UI2 medium at the moment. Any ideas?

Do you have it working with alpha blending, and no tearing in video? I have an nvidia, and UI2 works great with alpha blending, but there is tearing in the video. If I switch to UI2 with no alpha blending, the tearing goes away.

Do you have it working with alpha blending, and no tearing in video? I have an nvidia, and UI2 works great with alpha blending, but there is tearing in the video. If I switch to UI2 with no alpha blending, the tearing goes away.

I have to say we still see some tearing with alpha blending on... the nVidia drivers are still as good as they could be :-(

Do you have it working with alpha blending, and no tearing in video? I have an nvidia, and UI2 works great with alpha blending, but there is tearing in the video. If I switch to UI2 with no alpha blending, the tearing goes away.

I have to say we still see some tearing with alpha blending on... the nVidia drivers are still as good as they could be :-(

Do you have any experience with the fiire products? I am wondering if they have the same tearing problem with alpha blending.

What version of the nvidia drivers are you using? I have an Asus EN6200LE which is reported to work with UI2 + alpha blending by several people here in the forum. When I turn on alpha blending my CPU usage goes up to around 70% without doing anything and up to 100% when I try to use menus. The menus have a high latency and flickr screensaver is not moving smoothly... Because of that I can only use UI2 medium at the moment. Any ideas?

Cheers,/Chriss

We're using the non-open nVidia drivers

Well, of course I'm also using the proprietary driver (nvidia not nv). But which version are you using?

What version of the nvidia drivers are you using? I have an Asus EN6200LE which is reported to work with UI2 + alpha blending by several people here in the forum. When I turn on alpha blending my CPU usage goes up to around 70% without doing anything and up to 100% when I try to use menus. The menus have a high latency and flickr screensaver is not moving smoothly... Because of that I can only use UI2 medium at the moment. Any ideas?

Cheers,/Chriss

We're using the version that lmce-0704 installs from deb cache.

We're using the non-open nVidia drivers

Well, of course I'm also using the proprietary driver (nvidia not nv). But which version are you using?

The version shipped with LinuxMCE-0704 - nvidia-glx = 1.0.9631+2.6.20.5-15.20

What version of the nvidia drivers are you using? I have an Asus EN6200LE which is reported to work with UI2 + alpha blending by several people here in the forum. When I turn on alpha blending my CPU usage goes up to around 70% without doing anything and up to 100% when I try to use menus. The menus have a high latency and flickr screensaver is not moving smoothly... Because of that I can only use UI2 medium at the moment. Any ideas?

Cheers,/Chriss

We're using the non-open nVidia drivers

Well, of course I'm also using the proprietary driver (nvidia not nv). But which version are you using?

We're using the nVidia driver that is installed as standard by lmce-0704 with update 4 installed... here is the deb;